Join the crew from the Centerville Beautification Committee Oct. 30 at 9:30 a.m. to help spruce up Mother’s Park on Main Street. Clippers and gardening gloves should be part of your outfit.
School board to meet with council
The annual joint meeting of the school committee and town council is coming earlier this fiscal year: Nov. 4 at 7 p.m., to be precise.
At last week’s council meeting, Town Manager John Klimm said the meeting had been scheduled sooner than usual, “so that if there are any fundamental issues on the budget agreement between the school and town, we’ll know soon.”
Next week’s meeting will feature a discussion of the Stretch Code under the state’s Green Communities Act. The revised building code is an impetus to towns to “green up” their regulations.
The council will also hear from Klimm about a proposed early retirement incentive plan.
“As we begin to develop the budget for fiscal year 2012, it is a likely event that staff reductions will have to be made in order to develop a balanced budget that does not rely on using reserves to pay for recurring operating costs,” Klimm wrote in a summary of the item to be presented to the council. “An alternative to employee layoffs and incurring the costs associated with those terminations is to reduce the workforce through attrition. While this program by itself may not allow the town to avoid layoffs it could mitigate any that are necessary.”
Klimm said last week that he received an e-mail suggestion about going to a two-year capital expenditure program to take advantage of current favorable borrowing rates.